Package: xmonad Version: 0.7-1 Severity: normal When an xmonad session is started using a session manager such as kdm or gdm, the ~/.xsession file is ignored. So the usual way of launching programs, setting the background, etc. does not work.
The reason is that in /usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop supplied by this package, we have "Exec=xmonad". Instead, we should supply and run a simple script that first sets up the session and then execs xmonad. As an example (untested): Set "Exec=startxmonad" and supply this script: # /usr/bin/startxmonad # Set a nice environment variable so the user can # neatly detect that this is an xmonad session SESSION_TYPE=xmonad GLOBALXSESSION=/etc/xmonad/xsession USERXSESSION=~/.xsession if [ -f "$GLOBALXSESSION" ] then . $GLOBALXSESSION fi if [ -f "$USERXSESSION" ] then . $USERXSESSION fi exec /usr/bin/xmonad -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xmonad depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.2+dfsg-3 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii x11-utils 7.3+1 X11 utilities Versions of packages xmonad recommends: ii libghc6-xmonad-dev 0.7-1 A lightweight X11 window manager ii libghc6-xmonad-doc 0.7-1 A lightweight X11 window manager; -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
